each others’. Gaze heavy whenever it meets, and the occasional touch of fingers almost felt like a kiss.
Though, this time Jes reaches over the gearbox, tilts Bible’s head and kisses him.
Bible the new football player all speed and dribbling, he plays as a magicians with different tricks. Commentators applaud his passion, but also lecture him to tone it down - to play seriously, not doing kick ups etc.
It reminds them of a night in a rural village, the moon high and clear above them as they sat on the wet grass. A ball slowly pacing between them. They feel so complete, ‘this is what life is supposed to be’, after a day training kids. Their shoulders brushing against
He can almost feel the flower’s crown against his throat when Tyme smiles at him one evening - their pants rolled up to their knees, standin in a pond laughing as youngsters.
He envy Great for the life and the man before him. Envy everything he can see and touch, but not have.
Exes to lovers but it’s Vegas waking up as Great in another life and meeting Tyme. He gets another chance to love Thee and this time he won’t screw it up. Won’t let the other man die from Vegas’ betrayal.
But there’s something strange growing inside him when Tyme rejects him -
Yet as the flower inside him grows, twist and tangle between his organs, he doesn’t stop trying. And along the way he stops seeing the man as Thee; but as Tyme. And falls for the slow life by some street food instead of a luxurious mansion with the daily threats.